Step-Up+to+Writing+Strategies


 * Teacher Demo**
 * July 19, 2007**

1. Lisa Dobbs and Mary Dohl

2. SCKWP Summer Institute, 2007

3. Unit: Step Up to Writing Strategies

4. General Instruction Objectives: In this lesson the students will use a variety of strategies to enable them to write more clearly and gain meaning from written texts.

5. Specific Learning Outcomes 2. Uses (1) personal experience (2) observations (3) prior knowledge in written text. (Ideas and Content: prewriting, drafting, revising: N,E,T,P)
 * Standard 1 - Writing: The student writes effectively for a variety of**
 * audiences, purposes, and contexts.**
 * Benchmark 1: The student writes narrative text using the writing**
 * process.**

The student… 1. Develops a main idea in response to a prompt. (Ideas and Content: prewriting, drafting, revising: N,E,T,P) 2. Clarifies the main idea by selecting logical details that are accurate and helpful. (Ideas and Content: prewriting, drafting, revising: N,E,T,P) 10. Arranges information within each paragraph in logical order (typically 4-6 sentences). (Organization: prewriting, drafting, revising: N,E,T,P)
 * Standard 1 - Writing: The student writes effectively for a variety of**
 * audiences, purposes, and contexts.**
 * Benchmark 2: The student writes expository text using the writing**
 * process.**

6. Content and Activities

7. Instructional Procedures

8. Assessment

9. Materials and Aids 1) Step Up to Writing Hand Outs 2) Children’s Novel or Expository Text 3) Projector 4) Computer 5) Post-It Notes 6) Index Cards 7) Red, green, yellow, and blue markers or round stickers in same colors 8) Notebook Paper

10. Sources Auman, Maureen E., //Step Up to Writing,// Boston, Massachusetts, Sopris West Educational Services, 2006.